Stern served the United States Air Force during WWII after attending Deerfield Academy and the University of North Carolina.
[2] He was married to Joanne Stern, trustee of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City,[3] and later Barbara Biben, a Gannett Co.
[6][7] After serving as NBC’s Vice President, Enterprises Division (1952-1962),[8] he started and chaired the Television Communications Corporation (1962-1975), focusing on cable.
Stern became a trustee of Mount Sinai Hospital in 1963 and then its Chairman of the Board (1977-1985), notably heading up a fund to build Mount Sinai campus’ 26-story Annenberg building.
[11][12] He received an honorary doctorate of Humane Letters from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.